Amanda Burton Quotes

I was taught by my father. He was head of the primary school so I went to his school until I was 11 - I was the youngest of four daughters and we had all been taught by him. But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day.

Amanda Burton

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• We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.

  

  Gary Lineker
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• The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
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• I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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• How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.

  

  Barbra Streisand
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• Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
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• My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It's to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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  • Light
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• In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.

  

  Wayne Allard
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• When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • Up
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• The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • People
  • Truth
  • American

• I introduce her as the love of my life everywhere that we go. She introduces me as her current husband. So you can see how the relationship kinda works here.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Life
  • Love
  • Relationship

• We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.

  

  Rafik Hariri
  • Want
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• I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Loved
  • London
  • WIld

• Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Writing
  • You
  • Respond

• My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has never set foot on the stage - she's quite shy. So it's a strange thing because people say, 'Oh, coming from acting parents,' when the idea of acting would literally make my mother just want to throw up.

  

  Kate Winslet
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  • Up
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• We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!

  

  R. Lee Ermey
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• I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.

  

  Rachel Platten
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• All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

  

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• God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.

  

  Barbara Lynn
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• The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • True
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• Kids will remind you that, even though you've gone down a road 100 times, it's brand new for them - and that's healthy.

  

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• We're herded into schools and terrified into behaving. Taught how we're supposed to pretend to be, taught to parrot all kinds of nonsense at the flick of a switch, taught to keep our heads down and our elbows in and shut off our minds and shut off our sex. We learn we can't even piss when we have to. That's how we learn to be plastic and dumb.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • School
  • Sex
  • Dumb

• I'd always enjoyed acting at high school, and I was all lined up to do an honours degree course in biology at a Canadian university, and at the eleventh hour the drama teacher I had said, 'You know, you'll get a lot more girls if you go into acting,' and that kinda sold it.

  

  Matt Frewer
  • Up
  • School
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• I always forgave my students, like Jesus.

  

  Bikram Choudhury
  • Jesus

• I was taught by my father. He was head of the primary school so I went to his school until I was 11 - I was the youngest of four daughters and we had all been taught by him. But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day.

  

  Amanda Burton
  • School
  • Father
  • Education